JBS was setup by Nelson Rockefeller. I knew two people at the
original meeting. They needed a right-wing, anti-communist
organization. NR decided that Robert Welch was the man to run JBS,
so he arranged for the sale of Welch's Candy Co. (where Robert Welch
had been working for his brother John) to Nabisco (which was a
Rockefeller controlled company) at a highly inflated price and Welch
was given an income to run the John Birch Society.Revilo Oliver was a good friend of mine and he was one of the
founders of the JBS. He and I were sitting in his living room once
and he told me that he knew Nelson Rockefeller ran the Birch Society
because he had a revolving fund at Chase Manhattan Bank, and
whenever Welch needed a quarter million dollars to meet the payroll,
he'd go to CMB and withdraw the money.[Interview 2003] by James Dyer